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1942réf. 24011New York: Dodd Mead & Company 1942. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 19.5cm.; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; vi2206pp. General wear to jacket extremities including tiny chips crease to upper panel red spine portion quite faded tape repair to jacket extremities verso not showing through to exterior else Near Fine in Near Very Good jacket. Publisher's office copy with their rubberstamp to rear jacket panel. The sixth Dr. Kildare novel adapted into the 1940 film directed by Harold S. Bucquet and starring Lew Ayres Lionel Barrymore and Laraine Day. Dodd, Mead & Company unknown books
1940réf. 21931New York: Dodd Mead & Company 1940. First Edition. Octavo 20cm.; original orange cloth lettered in black orange topstain; 6227pp. A hint of shelf-wear else a Fine copy lacking the scarce dust jacket topstain still brilliant. Features the popular fictional character Dr. Kildare who would inspire a number of television series and films. Dodd, Mead & Company unknown books
1940réf. 21932New York: Dodd Mead & Company 1940. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo; chickpea-colored cloth with titles stamped in red on spine and front cover; red topstain; dustjacket; 223pp 1. Mild wear to base of spine some darkening to endpapers and scattered foxing to title page; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped priced $2.00 moderately edgeworn with scattered foxing to flaps and some nearly invisible archival reinforcement along joints and flap folds on verso; Very Good. The second Dr. Kildare book and basis for the 1939 film of the same name directed by Harold S. Bucquet and starring Lew Ayres and Lionel Barrymore. Dodd, Mead & Company unknown books
1932réf. 21435New York: Dodd Mead & Company 1932. First Edition. 12mo 19cm.; original yellow cloth upper cover and decorative spine printed in black; 6285pp.; title page vignette. A Fine vibrant copy. Western novel originally serialized in four parts as "The Giraldi Trail" in Western Story Magazine 1932. A later edition 1942 once again renamed the novel The Outlaw Trail. Dodd, Mead & Company unknown books
1922réf. 143525München: Georg Müller 1922. Octavo pp. 1-4 1 2 3-530 531: blank 532-536: publisher ads original pictorial light blue paper-covered boards front cover printed in black blue and violet spine panel printed in black top edge stained blue. First edition. A presentation copy with a signed inscription on the front free endpaper by Ewers to Sam Franko a noted American violinist and composer. A reissue of Schiller's DER GEISTERSEHER THE GHOST SEER an unfinished epistolary novel published in book form in Germany in 1789 that adds Ewers' own conclusion to the story and his fourteen-page afterword presumably explaining of his method and motivations. At least two continuations or conclusions to Schiller's tale in English have been published but Ewers' conclusion appears to be the only one composed in German. It was not well received by critics. Bloch 2002 932. Apart from mild age-darkening to the spine panel a fine copy. #143525 Georg Müller unknown books
1996réf. 9011630New York: Random House 1996. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. Random House hardcover books
réf. 6752Leipzig Bibliographisches Institut n.d. Octavo. Half morocco and marbled paper boards lettered in gilt on the spines t.e.g. decorated endpapers. Fine. Leipzig, Bibliographisches Institut, n.d. hardcover books
1912réf. P65711912. Sleep and dreams. A scientifically-grounded interpretation of dreams assembled by the famous medium Miss Hasse: over 1000 dreams. With an introductory article about sleep and dreams by the psycho-phrenologist H. M. Schiller-Shkol'nik. Warsaw: izdatel'stvo "Razsvet" 1912. Slim octavo 23 × 12.5 cm. Original embossed red cloth over boards; decorative endpapers; 58 1 4 36 pp. Illustrations throughout. Light soil to wrappers; spine cracked still about very good. First edition. The most popular dream interpretation handbook in pre-revolutionary Russia this text offers an alphabetized glossary of dream images and their possible meanings. Little is known about the author Miss Hasse a famous medium supposedly born in a Polish family in a town called Milava in 1854 then a part of the Russian empire. Miss Hasse performed before large audiences conducting séances and managed to amass a fortune riding the wave of popularity of esoterica in the late 19th century. In 1895 she opened a publishing house "MISS HASSE" which specialized in pseudoscientific texts on psycho-phrenology palmistry hypnosis and other esoteric subjects. The publishing house printed works by other popular mediums such as one H.M. Shiller-Shkol'nik. Excerpts from his two earlier books "A sure method for getting to know yourself and others" 1906 and "Hypnosis" 1911 are added to the end of the handbook. The appended text is illustrated with technical drawings. Several pages of testimonials apparently sent by individuals from all over the Russian empire from Kiev to Harbin close the publication suggesting the great reach of the mediums. The handbook was reprinted in 1990 by Moscau Redline press. This first edition is not in the Russian State Library. The Russian National Library's copy is marked lost. Not in KVK OCLC. hardcover books
2009réf. 36316Wilmington: Delaware Art Museum 2009. Paperback. Very good. 42pp. Very good in publisher's wraps. exc p Delaware Art Museum paperback books
1863réf. 2297530Longman Green Longman Roberts & Green 1863. First Edition. Half-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. First edition. Professionally rebound in half leather by McNamee Binder Cambridge. Spine toned top corner lightly discolored edges rubbed ink name on front free endpaper verso. 1863 Half-Leather. 582 6 pp. 8vo. Green leather spine and corners marbled boards and endpapers gilt titles and rules top edge gilt. Frances Anne Kemble's 'Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839' has long been recognized by historians as unique in the literature of American slavery and invaluable for obtaining a clear view of the 'peculiar institution' and of life in the antebellum South. Fanny Kemble was one of the leading lights of the English stage in the nineteenth century. During a tour of America in the 1830s she met and married a wealthy Philadelphian Pierce Butler part of whose fortune derived from his family's vast cotton and rice plantation on the Sea Islands of Georgia. After their marriage she spent several months living on the plantation. Profoundly shocked by what she saw she recorded her observations of plantation life in a series of journal entries written as letters to a friend. But she never sent the letters and not until the Civil War was on and Fanny was divorced from Pierce Butler and living in England were they published. Kemble followed the success of these letters with the publication of a volume of plays translated from the German of Friedrich Schiller and the French of Alexandre Dumas. Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green hardcover books
1970réf. WALTER-FILM002178No binding. Fine. Photo Vintage original 14 x 11" 36 x 28 cm. black-and-white double weight photo USA. James Earl Jones' career was catapulted to eminence by his appearance in the role of mythic African American boxer Jack Johnson in the play THE GREAT WHITE HOPE by Howard Sackler first on the Broadway stage and subsequently in the equally acclaimed film directed by Martin Ritt. Photographer Lawrence Schiller was well known for his portraits of such 1960s icons as the Kennedys Marilyn Monroe and Paul Newman. This photo is a dramatic image of a smiling shirtless Johnson Jones defiantly confronting a white rival. With the credit/agency stamp on back of photographer Lawrence Schiller along with the stamp of Transworld Feature Syndicate FINE. Transworld Feature Syndicate books
2002réf. 2312336New York: HarperCollins 2002. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. First edition. A near fine copy in a near fine jacket. 2002 Hard Cover. xv 317 pp. "From the bestselling author of American Tragedy and Perfect Murder Perfect Town comes an even more stunning portrayal of America's dark side. Into the Mirror is the shocking story of FBI Special Agent Robert P. Hanssen the master spy who singlehandedly created the greatest breach of security in the history of our country. Written in compelling novelistic prose Schiller re-creates a gripping portrait of Hanssen who for twenty-two years was a loving husband a devoted father of six a deeply devout Catholic and member of Opus Dei a passionate anticommunist a dedicated FBI agent -- and a traitor the likes of which the United States has never before seen. On February 18 2001 the FBI finally arrested Hanssen and charged him with selling to the Russians -- over a period of more than twenty years -- top-secret classified information. Nothing that has been reported to date about this ordinary-looking but tormented man has revealed the astonishing facts that Lawrence Schiller and Norman Mailer -- collaborators on the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Executioner's Song and Oswald's Tale -- uncovered during their nine-month investigation into the life of this complex man. In seeking to solve this almost impenetrable mystery Schiller and Mailer spent hundreds of hours interviewing members of Hanssen's family as well as his closest friends colleagues and fellow church members. They traveled to Moscow to interview a key member of the KGB who had handled the spy they knew only as "Ramon Garcia." Into the Mirror gets inside the mind of a devious and dangerously brilliant man and creates an unforgettable portrait of someone so caught up in the struggle with his own personal demons that he would betray everything he holds sacred-his wife his family his religion and his country. HarperCollins hardcover books
1800réf. 307974London: Printed for N.T. Longman and O. Rees By G. Woodfall 1800. First edition of Coleridge's English translation. Engraved portrait. iv 214; ii ii general title 157 1 ads pp. with half-title to first part and general title "Wallenstein. A Drama in Two Parts" bound with second part. 8vo. Period half calf and marbled boards green morocco spine label. Some foxing to portrait and first few leaves. First edition of Coleridge's English translation. Engraved portrait. iv 214; ii ii general title 157 1 ads pp. with half-title to first part and general title "Wallenstein. A Drama in Two Parts" bound with second part. 8vo. The first English edition of Schiller's Wallenstein set in Germany during the Thirty Years War and translated by Samuel Taylor Coleridge from a manuscript copy of the first German edition of 1799. Coleridge completed much of the translation - a free and poetic translation in blank verse - at Lamb's home in London seated at his desk in "a voluminous five-penny floral dressing-gown decorated with hieroglyphics . looking suspiciously 'like a conjuror' according to Lamb" Holmes Coleridge: Early Visions p. 261. The translation which omitted the first part of Schiller's trilogy Wallenstein's Camp was done in part to capitalize on the contemporary fashion for Schiller whose verse-drama The Robbers Coleridge had long admired. It was one of many of Coleridge's translation schemes hatched during his time abroad studying the language and literature of Germany. "In the event the project was a financial disaster earning him only £50 in advances while Longman lost £250 on the combined editions" ibid p. 267. Despite that Coleridge "was proud of his work and long afterwards described it as 'a specimen of my happiest attempt during the prime manhood of my intellect before I had been buffeted by adversity or crossed by fatality" ibid p. 268. ESTC T61110 & T61109; Wise Coleridge 16 & 17 Printed for N.T. Longman and O. Rees, By G. Woodfall unknown books
1951réf. TB28070Zurich: The Limited Editions Club 1951. Limited Edition. Fine in 1/4 brown cloth and decorated paper covered boards with gilt text on the spine and gilt illustration of a crossbow on the front board. A small quarto measuring 10 1/2" by 7 1/2" with illustrated end sheets. Without a dust jacket as issued; however the book is contained within a fine paper covered slip case with the title stamped in gilt on the spine end. One of only 1500 copies printed with this copy identified as number 600 and signed by the illustrator Charles Hug. Translated from the German in the meter of the original by Theodore Martin and with an introductory essay by Thomas Carlyle. 163 pages of text and illustrated with lithographs on stone by Charles Hug. William Tell. A very tight clean and handsome copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind. The Limited Editions Club hardcover books
1862réf. 28136Stuttgart: Cotta'fcher Verlag 1862. 6 vols. 8vo. Bound in three quarters pebbled brown morocco over pebbled boards. Bookplates of Henry Cabot Lodge. Some rubbing to extremities else very good. 6. 6 vols. 8vo. Cotta'fcher Verlag unknown books
1837réf. 62633London: Black and Armstrong 1837. 43 outline engravings by Retzsch. 1 vols. Oblong 4to. 1/4 calf. Rubbed and worn front cover detached. 43 outline engravings by Retzsch. 1 vols. Oblong 4to. Black and Armstrong unknown books
1959réf. M8901Reprint from:: 'Ciba Symposium' vol. 7 no. 4 1959. 1959. 230 x 170 mm. 8vo. 178-183 pp. 5 figs. 2 in color. Printed wrappers. Very good. 'Ciba Symposium,' vol. 7, no. 4, 1959. unknown books
1988réf. 25739Stroud: Catalpa Press 1988. stiff paper wrappers. Lear Edward. oblong 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. xii 119 pages. With introductory remarks by Vivien Noakes. A fascinating census of the limericks in Edward Lear's Book of Nonsensewhich was first published in 1846 as two separate volumes with seventy-three limericks. A "new" i.e. second edition came out in 1855 and a third edition with forty-three additional verses was published in 1861. This third edition provides the first full text and also identifies Lear as the author for the first time. It is often considered the first "trade" version as it was published by Routledge Warne & Routledge and consequently received broader distribution and readership. Justin Schiller has cross-referenced the 116 limericks in the third edition with eight manuscripts for this book which are now preserved in various rare book collections and compared them to the printed texts of the 1846 1855 and 1861 editions. This volume also contains a census of known copies of the genuine first edition. Catalpa Press unknown books
1990réf. 49189New York: Battledore Ltd 1990. hardcover. Carroll Lewis. 6 x 9 inches. hardcover. 111 pages. Collectors and those interested in children's books will find this work fascinating as it unearths information about the first actual printing of Alice in Wonderland. Encouraged by his friends Reverend Charles Dodgson otherwise known as Lewis Carroll first had Alice published by Macmillan & Co. and printed by the Clarendon Press in June 1865 arranging to have a specially bound copy delivered to Alice Liddell the famous Alice for whom the story was spun the next month on July 4. However not several weeks after that John Tenniel the illustrator wrote to Dodgson complaining of his dissatisfaction with the printing of his illustrations. Macmillan examined one of the unbound copies of the book and agreed to fully reprint the book using a more commercial printer from London Richard Clay. The condemned printing was then sold to David Appleton & Co. an overseas publishing house who wanted to distribute copies of the book in America. Only 1952 copies were sold to them of the original 2000 copy print run. The title-pages were redone with a New York imprint dated 1866 the sheets were machine-folded and put into cloth bindings with Appleton's name on the lower spine and the new title-page substituted on a stub for the earlier one. Meanwile Macmillan completed its new edition in November 1865 but post-dated this printing 1866 in time for the holidays. As of this writing twenty-two copies of the original 1865 Alice are located and known to have survived with their original title-pages plus one copy presented to Christ Church Library currently lost by the author. This work resolves the whereabouts of Macmillan's file copy and hopefully provides a framework for future research. An excellent book which contains a wealth of information about the publication of Alice in Wonderland. Well-illustrated throughout. Battledore Ltd unknown books
1879réf. 48602Munich and New York: Theo. Stroefer & Geo. Krichner & co 1879. Small folio pp. 55 1; 5 engraved plates; text illustrations throughout by Alexander Liezen Mayer many of them full page decorative borders by Rudolf Seitz; original red pebbled-grain cloth with red morocco spine elaborate gilt design on cover and spine back cover with blind-stamped border; a.e.g.; corners bumped extremities rubbed very light foxing; contemporary Greenleaf family gift inscriptions on flyleaf; very good and sound. Theo. Stroefer & Geo. Krichner & co hardcover books
1951réf. 47450Zurich: Limited Editions Club 1951. Limited edition of 1500 signed by the illustrator small 4to pp. 163 1; illustrations throughout; cloth backed paper boards; one corner bumped else fine in slipcase. LEC Bibliography 216. Limited Editions Club hardcover books
1951réf. 47389Zurich: Limited Editions Club 1951. Edition limited to 1500 copies signed by the illustrator small 4to pp. 163 1; illustrations throughout; original cloth-backed paper-covered boards; one corner bumped else fine in original glassine and a slipcase that is lightly rubbed. LEC Bibliography 216. Limited Editions Club hardcover books
1991réf. 4300glOxford England: Clio Press 1991. World Bibliographical Series No. 134. First Edition. Octavo slick orange boards hardcover xxviii 102 pp. Map. Fine. Clio Press, (1991). World Bibliographical Series No. 134. First Edition. hardcover books
1995réf. 4299glOxford England: Clio Press 1995. World Bibliographical Series No. 182. First Edition. Octavo slick orange boards xxxviii 210 pp. Maps. Fine. Clio Press, (1995). World Bibliographical Series No. 182. First Edition. hardcover books
1921réf. 43393Berlin: verlegt bei Erich Reiss 1921. Edition limited to 100 copies this is copy 98 large 4to 70 leaves vignette lithograph portrait on title page 10 full-page lithographs by Otto Baumberger each one signed in the margin by him in pencil; original paste-paper boards corners worn extremities lightly rubbed neatly rebacked for appearance sake the sewing structure loose but intact edges uncut; occasional mild spotting very good in a new green cloth clamshell box. An early and uncharacteristic work by Otto Baumberger 1889-1961 the noted Swiss painter and poster artist. Early on as an employee of Wolfensberger AG in Zurich he acquired a thorough knowledge of lithographic technique employed with precision in this rendering of Schiller's classic work. Later Baumberger produced some 200 posters of great quality and style. His realistic rendering of a herringbone tweed coat became a classic of Swiss poster art. verlegt bei Erich Reiss hardcover books
